Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/03/01/05:39:09
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 12:12:32 -0500
> > From: CBFalconer <cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com>
> >
> > I am working on the realloc mechanism now, and it looks as if it
> > is going to be able to avoid most of the copying in the most
> > common user sequences, such as while more input double (or
> > otherwise extend) the buffer size.
>
> I assume you did look at the modified realloc in the CVS sources. I
> think it also avoids copying in many cases, more then the version
> shipped with djdev203.zip.
>
> > When realloc is done I will be able to run some comparisons
> > against the old version with the software that exposed the free
> > problem in the first place.
>
> It would be interesting to add to that comparison the original code of
> free with a change suggested by Charles: stop trying to merge if no
> good place to merge was found in N attempts, for some value of N.
> That is, break out of the loop in `merge' after a certain number of
> attempts.
>
> > What do you think about the debuggery system linkage, in my 4:50
> > am today message?
>
> Did you look at the malldbg.c module in the CVS version of the
> library? Perhaps you could make your facilities compatible with the
> functionality offered by that module.
I am old fashioned and ignorant. I have never used CVS,
especially over the Internet, so I need some heavy hand holding to
find any of this. The only similar thing I ever used as Source
Integrity about 4 years ago, which was a horror.
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